We’ve got the whole world in our hands

Walking through a London train station yesterday I had to weave my way through hundreds of protestors.  Their favourite placard seemed to be this one:
photo from here
The message reads: Our climate is in our hands.  And at least 20 000 gathered in the capital to remind us of this: we’ve got the whole world in [...]

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Happy Creation Day

Once again, Happy Birthday creation!!

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(h/t Archbishop Ussher)
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And lest we ever forget – it’s also a big Happy Birthday to Weird Al Yankovic
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A website I just checked says he’s only 49.  Goes to show, you can’t always trust the ages widely reported.
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And if you weren’t around then, here’s the link to our epic 94 comment [...]

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Six Thoughts on the Sermon of Creation

Here’s a thawed out Thursday repost with the addition of a sixth point.  If you’ve read it before, scroll on down to number 6.
1) The sermon of creation is not a minimal thing – it’s maximal.  Romans 1:19 ‘what may be known about God… God has made plain.’  Colossians 1:23 ‘the gospel… has been proclaimed to [...]

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Piper or Darwin – Who is the more controversial target?

The figures don’t lie.  My post dissing Darwin has just received its 70th comment.  It has caused twice as much of a stir as my next most controversial post – Piper’s theology of glory.
Pause for thought?
 
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The evolution of a creationist

In the beginning I believed in billions of years.
Then, about 8 years ago, a great friend engaged me in the most infuriating conversation of my life.  He actually asked me to articulate my position.  He wanted me to spell out how I thought Eden and Adam fitted into my evolution story.  How evolved was humanity when [...]

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We all have our creation stories

Just watched this documentary on the Large Hadron Collider: “The Big Bang Machine.” (BBC4) presented by Brian Cox.
 
Here’s an extract from around 4:20 – 7:20.   
Physics is stuck and the only thing left to do is recreate the universe as it was a fraction of a second after the big bang.  That’s [...]

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Incarnation and Creation

Yesterday we looked at incarnation and trinity.  Today I’ll just make some observations about incarnation and creation.
Christ is “The Beginning”, “The Alpha”, “The First”.  His Person is itself the basis for creation.  He is the One who is eternally Other from the Father and the foundation for all else that is other than Him.  Because of [...]

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Creation preaches Christ — Creation cannot save

This is in response to Orange Mailman’s question on my last post:
Creation preaches Christ.  Creation cannot save.  I definitely want to uphold both things.  And Romans 10 is a great place to highlight both. 
Verse 14: How can they hear without someone preaching? 
Verse 17-18: Psalm 19’s Word of Christ goes out to the ends of the earth.
Perhaps [...]

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Creation’s voice proclaims… what?

As we’ve been thinking about how to know God (and how not to) we’re basically thinking about the subject of revelation.
It’s common when speaking of revelation to treat two categories – general revelation (God made known through nature and conscience) and special revelation (usually meaning ‘the bible’).  Now of course such a distinction can be [...]

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How not to know God – creation

Previously on Christ the Truth:
We must begin all theology with the Word of God – Jesus.
This means ruling out other starting points, such as…
Reason
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Religion
Now we consider creation as another false foundation for theology.  Not, of course, that the heavens are silent about God – they pour forth speech day after day! (Psalm 19).  What I [...]

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Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday creation!!

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(h/t Archbishop Ussher)
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Also Happy Birthday Weird Al Yankovic
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Coincidence?
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Five thoughts on the sermon of creation

1) The sermon of creation is not a minimal thing – it’s maximal.  Romans 1:19 ‘what may be known about God… God has made plain.’  Colossians 1:23 ‘the gospel… has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven.’  Psalm 19:2 ‘Day after day they pour forth speech.’
2) Our blindness/deafness to this sermon is not minimal either – it [...]

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